Tips: recording

A number of people have expressed interest in recording pieces written with
Mozart. The following method has been distilled from assorted wisdom posted on
the Mozart Discussion Group.

Recording your MOZART pieces

Creating a CD which will play back in a standard sound system can be done in a number of steps. The final step is to
compile the audio CD from a collection of recordings on your computer hard disk in the .wav (waveform) file format. If you have a CD-writer, then the software which comes with it will
almost certainly allow you to do this. Consult the CD writer software manual about how to go about this.

Once you have established how to do this, the problem is how to
record .wav files using MOZART. MOZART's sound
output is in the form of MIDI. MIDI comprises a sequence of instructions to a synthesiser on how
to synthesise sounds, whereas .wav files are themselves
digital recordings. Therefore all methods of creating .wav
files involve sending the MIDI to the synthesiser and capturing the output
in the form of a .wav file.

It can be done with Windows alone or with various other
applications. Here are links to detailed explanations of
some methods you can use.

Creating a .wav file from a MIDI file

This method uses no other software than comes with Windows,
though it may not be the easiest method. Thanks to numerous
contributors on the Mozart mailing list for the discussion from which I have
distilled this method.

Nigel Parsons (a long time Mozartist) has come up with a method which
uses Apple iTunes software which can be downloaded free of charge.
He has kindly written up this method which we publish here as a PDF document.

Further reading:

If you want to make higher quality recordings
than the simple techniques presented here allow, then you might be
interested in Raymond Robijns's explanation
of the more advanced procedures he uses.